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KRUSHARI, BULGARIA—A fifth-century Christian crypt has been unearthed at a basilica located near Zaldapa, an ancient fortified town in northeastern Bulgaria. The large crypt, which may have held the remains of at least one martyr, was entered sometime in the tenth century. (Basilicas were often built on top of martyrs’ burial places.) “We still do not know exactly what is in it, because we have not finished the excavation,” Kostadin Kostadinov, director of the Regional Historical Museum, said in an interview on Bulgarian National Television that was reported in The Sofia Globe. Archaeologists are looking for an inscription that could tell them about who was buried there. For more on archaeology in Bulgaria, go to "Thracian Treasure Chest."
